City council gets a pay hike after no one pitches salary freeze at meeting

Members of city council will receive a pay raise this year after no motion was brought forward Tuesday to support a pay freeze. Several members of council had indicated they supported a pay freeze, which would keep salaries at 2023 levels, as an act of good faith amid cost-of-living increases for Calgarians.But at Tuesday's city council meeting, no proposal to rollback wages was brought forward. "I don't know why members of council didn't bring anything forward," said Mayor Jyoti Gondek. "Calgar